Reading, Not Just For Beaches

Month: June 2017

Date started: 3/3/17 Date finished: 3/4/17 For #20 of BookRiot’s Read Harder Challenge: Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel Once in a while, I get my grubby medium sized hands on a book that I can with a serious face say I stayed up half the night reading. Let […]

Date started: 3/16/17 Date finished: 3/18/17 For # 22 of POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: A Steampunk novel Nothing says YA like a good romp with the Steampunk genre. Am I right, folks? In a world where World War I does Steampunk, only one book prevails over […]

Another unanswered question from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is how Professor Quirrell knows about the Severus Snape and James Potter rivalry. In my recollections I didn’t think it was even really mentioned until the third book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakban. Sheesh, was I wrong! And from the least likely person, Professor […]

After my thesis, the very thought of reading an actual adult novel seemed too daunting to me. For a couple of the challenges, I decided to stick with the YA genre. Note all of these books are YA. The following books were books, I may have wanted to read for this challenge. I do not […]

Keeping with the YA formula of the week, today I present to the audience “7 Nifty Book List to Start Today.” Most of them are YA friendly too, which is always a plus! Why should book challenges have all the fun? These book lists will get you into the reading spirit and just in time […]

Date started: 1/19/17 Date finished: 1/24/17For #12 of Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge: Read a fantasy novelFor #8 of POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: Read a book with multiple authors. There a very few times in my life, when I’m ahead of the curve. Reading this […]

Date Started: 3/12/17 Date finished: 3/14/17 For #s 37 and 42 for POPSUGAR Reading challenge: A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 and A bestseller from 2016 Wonder by R.J. Palacio haunted me in the same way The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-time did except […]

Starting June 12, 2017 to June 19, 2017 The end of the school year is right around the corner to celebrate, I’ll be going through the hottest thing since sliced bread: YA fiction. To give everyone a heads up, starting Monday, I’ll be focusing on reviews from Young Adult fiction and juvenile fiction books I’ve […]

Keeping with the Flashback Friday aesthetic, today’s post will be dealing with a classic childhood favorite of mine. Recently, I just finished rereading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling. I admit the last time I read this particular book was when I was probably 11 or 12. So of course, I remembered […]